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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:stuchapt-request@lists.ala.org">
stuchapt-request@lists.ala.org</a> [<a href="mailto:stuchapt-request@lists.ala.org">mailto:stuchapt-request@lists.ala.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Don Wood<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 05, 2016 9:08 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:stuchapt@lists.ala.org">stuchapt@lists.ala.org</a><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:Peter.Hepburn@canyons.edu">Peter.Hepburn@canyons.edu</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [STUCHAPT] The Task Force on the Context for Future Accreditation<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Good morning!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">The Task Force on the Context for Future Accreditation* is attempting to describe the fields and context for future accreditation and make recommendations to the American Library
Association Executive Board. Addressed will be knowledge, skills, and core competencies currently in place and needed in the future; values that bind together library and information studies (LIS) fields and core elements in the curriculum; and the changing
institutional context for accreditation such as pedagogical innovation, assessment, and resources. Student input through completion of this survey is extremely important to the work of the task force.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">To that end, I have been asked to send you a link to their survey:
<a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SLIMStudent">https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SLIMStudent</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Please take the survey and also distribute the link to your Chapter members.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Address questions and comments related to this survey to:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Peter Hepburn<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Head Librarian, College of the Canyons<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Santa Clarita, CA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">661.362.3758<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><a href="mailto:Peter.Hepburn@canyons.edu">Peter.Hepburn@canyons.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Thanks for sharing your time and expertise.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Don</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">* The Special Task Force on the Context of Future Accreditation is charged to develop a white paper that describes the fields and context for which we will be accrediting in the future and to
make such recommendations as may arise in the process of that development to the ALA Executive Board.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">The discussion should address:<o:p></o:p></p>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">
Accreditation of information programs -- who is doing what, how do or might they relate to LIS programs; disconnect (or perceived disconnect) between skills increasingly needed (e.g., information architecture), the current curricula of LIS programs, and standards/statements
of core competencies currently in place;<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">
Values -- e.g. public access, privacy, intellectual freedom -- as common threads binding together LIS and related fields and a core element in curricula; and,<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">
The changing institutional context for accreditation, including factors such as pedagogical innovation, assessment and resources.<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">The discussion/white paper should result in a conceptual statement as a framework for the development (by the ALA Committee on Accreditation) of future standards.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Timeline: The Task Force will make an interim report to the ALISE Board of Directors and the ALA Executive Board in January 2016, with a final report to the ALA Executive Board
at the 2016 Annual Conference in Orlando.<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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